Summer Graduate Student Instructor of Record Stipend Top-Off Request

Don't forget to submit your research funds request after you enter your summer grades! (You have until May 20th following the summer of their instruction to get the research fund request in.)


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Do you want to receive the early stipend top-off option?*

The department is encouraging grad student instructors to offer their courses outside of the first 3-week session to help boost enrollment. If you’re teaching in a later session, there will be a gap between your spring 2025 assistantship ending and your SCE appointment starting. The department is offering the option to receive an early stipend top-off in May ($2,750 – last summer’s average top-off amount). If your actual stipend top-off (calculated on the first day of class, with at least four students enrolled) is higher than the May disbursement, I’ll adjust it up to the correct amount. If it’s lower, I’ll adjust it down, and you’ll be responsible for repaying the difference.

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By checking this box, I am verifying that the letter I uploaded from SCE includes my stipend amount and that I will submit my research fund request in a timely manner.